User talk:Anameofmyveryown/Sandbox5

Great work on all these. Just wondering on the proportional note, do we know the exact systems used?- J Logan t: 15:09, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * The electoral procedures (voting ages, election method, dual mandates, deposit required, etc) for the elections can be found here:
 * 1979
 * 1984
 * 1989
 * 1994
 * 1999
 * 2004


 * The reasons why I don't go into too much detail on the infoboxes on electoral methods is because there are so many of them - seat allocation alone can be d'Hondt, largest average (France), Hare-Niemeyer (Germany), quota division (Italy), St. Lagüe (Sweden). And that's before we get into whether the lists are open/closed, and whether STV is proportional or quasi-proportional. So I just put "All Proportional Representation" in the infoboxes (since 99) and when I drill down to the member states I'll go into more detail in the infoboxes (so the infobox for Sweden will read "Electoral methods: Proportional representation, one constituency, preference voting, closed list, seat allocation modified St. Lagüe, 4% threshold") Anameofmyveryown (talk) 23:23, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Though that was the reason, just seemed a bit odd with all now saying "all proportional". But on a side note, do you think it might be good to have a section on the elections page talking about all these systems?- J Logan t: 23:49, 13 December 2007 (UTC)
 * The honest answer is "yes and no". Yes, because it needs a little bit more than can go in the infobox. No, because there's a danger it'll cruft its way up into a fullscale disquisition on the pros and cons of each voting method. So the answer to your question is "It would be good to have a short (1 para) section on the electoral systems" Anameofmyveryown (talk) 00:49, 14 December 2007 (UTC)